Bloom County, a 1980s cartoon-comic strip that dealt with socio-political issues as seen through the eyes of highly exaggerated characters (e.g. Bill the Cat and Opus the Penguin) and humorous analogies.
Creator Berkeley Breathed's first regularly published strip, Academia Waltz, appeared in the Daily Texan in 1978. The strip attracted notice from the editors of the Washington Post who recruited him to do a nationally syndicated strip. On December 8, 1980, Bloom County made its debut and featured some of the characters from Academia Waltz, including former frat-boy Steve Dallas and the paraplegic Vietnam War veteran Cutter John.
Bloom County earned Berkeley the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning in 1987. The strip eventually appeared in over 1,200 newspapers around the world until he retired the daily strip in 1989, stating, "A good comic strip is no more eternal than a ripe melon. The ugly truth is that in most cases, comics age less gracefully than their creators". The comic continues in recirculation on GoComics!
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Bliss by Harry Bliss
Bo Nanas by John Kovaleski
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KeepKeeper said, 3 months ago
travel faster than light by surfing the light ways with light reflecting sails. In space it should be a cinch.
Sisyphos said, 3 months ago
And so boy genius Oliver Wendell Jones was stifled in youth and grew up to be just another faceless Silicon Valley technician….
goprendek said, 3 months ago
i have to put my starship in the shop. my warp drive got warped and now i just fly around in circles.
American1 said, 3 months ago
I don’t know if i’d have confidence in a teacher who looks like a flood victim.
markjoseph125
said, 3 months ago
The idea was falsifiable, so it qualified as science, even though it didn’t pan out. Unlike creationism, where any possible state of affairs can be explained as “goddidit” and hence is not falsifiable. If you don’t believe this, ask a creationist what sort of evidence would prove creationism to be wrong.
scottbruce said, 3 months ago
This is the problem with public schools today.
Thirdguy said, 3 months ago
My porcupine loves raisins! His poop alone, could power the world!
piksea
said, 3 months ago
How about wheaties? Or maybe Total.
Ionizer said, 3 months ago
One of the best of this strip.
JiminNYC said, 3 months ago
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Nope; H.L. Mencken said that.
Night-Gaunt49 said, 3 months ago
Science goes by facts not fanciful beautiful ideas. However such ideas can lead to beautiful facts.
dbethke_1959
said, 3 months ago
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I thought it was either Mark Twain or P.T. Barnum.
Colonel Claus
said, 3 months ago
Actually, It was first spoken by Huxley College President Quincy Adams Wagstaff.
nazzofoggenmach said, 3 months ago
mr einstein wrote a little tome called “relativity for the common man”. at the end of the really heavy chapters (all of them) he added a disclaimer to the effect that, paraphrased is; “at this point children, we stare into the face of god”. check out lanza’s new book if you’re into big answers that create ever bigger questions.
Teresa said, 3 months ago
Where did ol’ teach get his information about Porcupines being allergic to raisins!
Oh, wait. he was only saying that to burst the fragile bubble of independant thought and creativity.
What a lousy thing to do to such a smart kid! Genius, even!
Somebody needs to do the paperwork and get lil’ Oliver into a more challenging course of instruction!